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[quote=Anonymous]I think about this a lot, OP. I have a suspicion that few people are focused on sports for the reasons they share out loud. My DH was a college athlete (I wasn’t competitive enough) and the difference between our lives in the years after HS is remarkable. We are both introverts from families with histories of mental illness. In his case, having a sport and structure of it continue into adulthood helped him stay stable and launch more easily than me. I really struggled with loneliness and depression in college and early adulthood and realized only later how important the social aspects and physiological impacts of team sports were for me.

So now we are up front with our kid about why they need to be doing a sport. Like us, she is introverted and prone to anxiety. We make sure she has a sport that gives her community and is intense enough that it helps balance her brain chemistry. We’re also very careful about folding in “backup” sports into her schedule. Her main year-round sport isn’t one she’ll be able to do as an adult woman, so we are really strict about her playing tennis, skiing, and doing summer swim (even though she says they’re boring, etc) so she’ll have other things to fall back on as an adult. [/quote]

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